Life Skills

A camping puzzle - Trees and Tents

Here's a little game to get you started. Can you use your logic skills to work out where each of the campers has pitched their tent in the campground? Click the pic to access the game and a description of the rules, or scroll down to start building your own camping and life skills.

Learn to build a campfire

Click the pic to explore 4 different types of campfire, as well as their advantages and disadvantages.

Learn camp cooking

Remember how delicious our 'bannock over the fire' recipe tasted? Click the pic above to try the same recipe at home, or use the link below to read more about the history of this interesting yet simple food.

Learn Fire Safety

Coming soon.

Learn Knot Tying

Knowing how to tie the right knot for the job can be a life saver. Keen to learn more? Try the video above.

​* Note: As we discussed in class, this video intentionally uses gender stereotyping to try to capture an audience and make it stand our from any number of other knot tying videos. Rather than use another video though, it has been included here as a discussion point, to help us develop another important life skill - the ability to be a critical audience, to understand marketing techniques, and to consider their influence on us.

What do you think? Is this video sexist, well-marketed, or both? What types of people might be drawn to it? How many put off? Is it better to a) potentially attract a large group of people, while putting a similarly large group off your brand; b) to take a broader approach but risk not directly engaging any particular group, or c) is there a better alternative altogether? Would you be inclined to click on this video if given a range of others to chose from? A little food for thought as you practise tying your knots.

​And finally, just in case you had any doubts about whether learning to tie knots was a gender based skill, here's an inspiring article (click below) about 6 of the youngest people to ever sail solo around the world. For sailors, knot tying is an essential skill, and for these girls and boys it would have kept them alive.